The Taming of the ShrewClarendon Press, 1982 - 248 pages The introduction offers a full and original consideration fo th play's textual problems, a study of sources, a survey of scholarship and criticism, with the editor's own critical appreciation, and a study of the comedy's fortunes in the theatre. |
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Page 104
... hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment , 120 130 114-15 ] as verse FI ; as prose POPE 114.1 ... hear should hear ( a subjunctive use rather than , as Abbott explains it , 370 , an irregular sequence of tenses ) 132 frame ...
... hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment , 120 130 114-15 ] as verse FI ; as prose POPE 114.1 ... hear should hear ( a subjunctive use rather than , as Abbott explains it , 370 , an irregular sequence of tenses ) 132 frame ...
Page 131
... hear me with patience . Baptista is a noble gentleman , To whom my father is not all unknown , And were his daughter fairer than she is , She may more suitors have , and me for one . Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers , Then ...
... hear me with patience . Baptista is a noble gentleman , To whom my father is not all unknown , And were his daughter fairer than she is , She may more suitors have , and me for one . Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers , Then ...
Page 164
... hear of Petruchio's BIONDELLO When he stands where I am and sees you there . TRANIO But say , what to thine old news ? BIONDELLO Why , Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin ; a pair of old breeches thrice turned ; a pair of ...
... hear of Petruchio's BIONDELLO When he stands where I am and sees you there . TRANIO But say , what to thine old news ? BIONDELLO Why , Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin ; a pair of old breeches thrice turned ; a pair of ...
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